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Auto Repair Shop Owners: It's a Great Time to Review

 

The End of the Year is a Great Time to Review

by Rick White, President 180BIZ                                                      (Estimated Read Time 3 minutes)

Let’s talk about review. This is a great time of year and it's a natural thing to do right as we're coming to the close of a year. But I want you to be productive in the process of reviewing. I’ll tell you about the four R’s.

Review the year using the four R’s. REGRET, REST, RECHARGE, and RESET!

  1. REGRET.  Avoid this R like the plague. I don't care how good your year was, your brain when you ask it what went wrong, I promise that you will find things that didn't go as well as they could have. You will find setbacks or challenges. That’s normal. Regret just keeps you staring at the problem and getting nothing done. Regret has no place here.
  2. What you want to do instead is REST. You need to physically rest. Some of you have been pushing hard long hours to get to where you want to go. I get that. We're doing it too. What are you doing right now to rest? If you are in regret mode, you have zero rest.
  3. The second thing I want you to do over this coming week is RECHARGE. What's the difference between rest and recharge? Rest is a physical thing. It's getting your body back to a healthier, more alert state. Recharge is more of an emotional, spiritual kind of thing. Mental. It's about getting okay on the inside. You can't create a great year carrying the baggage from a lousy year. You should be writing down the wins and the lessons. What were the wins this year? What were your lessons? Those failures. They are simply lessons designed to refine how you show up. So rest and recharge. Now, part of recharging is seeing the potential in yourself, your team, and your business because when there's hope in the future, there's power in the present. That is one of my favorite all-time quotes. When you get up in the morning you must believe that it will be a better day.
  4. The final R is RESET. This is where you evaluate your wins and evaluate the lessons. Identify what you will continue to do, stop doing, and start doing. And then come up with a game plan for each. Anytime you have a lousy day or a lousy week, you just need a game plan moving forward so that you believe there is something better out there and you can make it happen. You need that reset. What am I going to start? What am I going to continue? What am I going to stop? Think of three things you're going to do and then start doing them. Come up with a plan for them. Slow down and watch what magic can happen. The ideas that can happen kick regret to the curb.

Don’t let your disappointments turn into Atrophy!

The only way this year will get worse or stay the same is if you carry the disappointments and the battle scars from this past year into the next year.  The only way it's going to get better is if you learn and let it go.

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God bless. stay safe, have some fun, and go make some money.  Take care.

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